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Gwyneth Herbert - All The Ghosts Vinyl LP (Naim)

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Gwyneth Herbert - All The Ghosts Vinyl LP (Naim)

Gwyneth's
latest smorgasbord of musical musings, ‘All The Ghosts', takes her
music further down her own idiosyncratic path. It carries ten terrific
songs, which speak to you directly, without forethought for genre or
category. In their melodic immediacy and observational
characterisation, you might hear the Lennon-McCartney of ‘Sgt Pepper',
or the Ray Davies of ‘Lola', rather than any jazz stereotype.

The
songs are populated by a living, breathing cast of beaten-down
dreamers, jaded city-dwellers, and women in a quandary. There is a
beautiful prostitute with a split lip, pining to be free to return to
mother Russia. There is also a wicked, myth-enshrouded temptress, luring
in young men with drink and drugs. And there is a Mini, the same age
as the singer, as human and ‘real' in its wheezing everyday tasks as
any of the other folk. These, simply, are songs about people, about
life, as the singer has precociously learnt to understand them at her
tender age.

Recorded
in a live studio environment at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios,
near Bath, Gwyneth and her faithful and accomplished quartet spent only
two days laying the songs down. "It's a beautiful place, in the middle
of nowhere - no distractions, amazing food, and lots of red wine. We
wanted to revisit the whole concept of recording live. It was pretty
much all done that way, everyone in one room, with basic separation,
and no overdubs."

Says
Gwyneth, "Like on ‘Wardrobe', you'll hear finger-tapping noises, or
somebody drop a drumstick halfway through. There's a couple of weird
pitching things with my voice, but I didn't want to sacrifice the vibe
of the whole thing, for some idea of perfection. Musically, too, there's
a lot more clunks and clatters. It's more percussive and driving."

‘All
The Ghosts' is very much an ensemble piece, and sees Herbert's current
combo - Al Cherry (gtr), Sam Burgess (bass), Steve Holness (piano and
keys - "in his case, Bob really is your uncle!") and Dave Price
(percussion) - hitting upon some inventive and often strange new
sounds. Price, in particular, has amassed an armoury of oddball rhythm
instruments, which include a cajon, or a "stool drum". He also bangs a
gong on a couple of tracks. All the strange boings and crashes sometimes
recall Tom Waits.

Gwyneth
now feels embroiled in the arts of songcraft, from the wry portraiture
of mid-'60s beat-poppers, to the arcane traditions of folk and blues.
The songs present a lurid assortment of outsider characters, most of
them women.

"Some
of them are literal women, whom I've really met," she reveals, "and I
guess they are all outsiders, but they're not necessarily black and
white. With Lorelei, she's a very naughty woman, but I'd like to think
you feel slightly enhanted by what she does, rather than completely
rejecting her. Nataliya wants to go home, but that's Russia, and
there's no hope of doing that, so there aren't many options for her.
And Jane is a frantic mother confused by everything - you can't judge
her for that". Gwyneth Herbert's songs will enchant anyone who gets to
hear them.

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